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Author: Johnson, Alvin J.
Title: Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World...with Descriptions, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, Including the Latest Federal Census, and the Existing Religious Denominations in the World
Place Published: New York
Publisher:A.J. Johnson
Date Published: 1867
Description:

[4], 134, [3] pp. + 105 numbered map leaves as listed in the contents. With hand-colored maps (many are double-page) including insets; 2 hand-colored plates showing world time differences, flags of the world (double-page), 5 charts showing the heights of mountains and lengths of rivers of the world (on two pages), 6 physical maps (on 2 pages), 6 hand-colored globe illustrations, and the East and West Hemispheres (full-page); plus an engraved frontispiece from a photograph of the U.S. Capitol building. Text by Richard Swainson Fisher, M.D. (Folio) 46x34 cm (18x14½"), original half morocco and brown cloth decoratively blind-stamped, stamped and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.

The complete and comprehensive Johnson's atlas of the United States and the world. Thirty-five maps of the Americas, 27 pertain to the United States (many are the double-page maps) including Vicinity of Richmond and Peninsular Campaign in Virginia. This copy lists a vignette title page in the contents which is not present, but contains the U.S. Capitol frontispiece which is not listed in the contents.

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Rubbing and soiling to boards, joints starting, loss to spine ends; hinges cracked, clear tape repairs to some initial leaves which are starting to detach, contents sheet detached and laid in, foxing to initial leaves, scattered chips and small closed tears to page edges; overall good with very good map sheets.